title: Road to Sakura
pairing: possible eventual SasuSaku.
summary: She doesn't realize she's still holding her breath until she finally lets it out when the bird flaps both of its wings and flies around her room.
notes: OH MY GOD! I FORGOT TO UPDATE MY FANFICTIONS! I'M SO SORRY, MY READERS! I'M SO SORRY! I ended up finding out some of my summer work was done wrong because the instructions had changed, and so I had to redo those and finish the very little stuff I had left to do. I'm so sorry, readers! I promise, until school starts, I'll work harder on my fanfics! Forgive me!
notes 2: Also, for anyone waiting for Two Hearts and A Red Sin, um, yeah . . . that one will not be out anytime soon because I caught writers' block on it. So yeah . . . sorry. I might make a short interlude, though, for it.
notes 3: Lyrics from ayumi hamasaki's A song is born
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Road to Sakura
"Surely, no one was hoping for
Any of those terrible things
Hold the flowers to your heart,
And pray that they may someday bloom"
Sakura had found a new love in the books she borrowed from the library. She had never known that the human body was so interesting. There were so many pressure points, so many weak points, so many of almost anything! Reading these books gave Sakura a new understanding of what she needed to improve on, not just as a now aspiring medic nin but as a shinobi in general. She improved her techniques to shield her weak points and to maneuver her pressure points away from the enemy.
Of course, taijutsu wasn't the only thing she worked on. She had also borrowed a book on medical jutsu written by the ledegendary Sannin Tsunade herself. Reading through it as quickly as possible but retaining every detail, Sakura had herself finding her true potential within the book's words. Her chakra control which was a much needed aspect to be a medic was perfect. She knew she had yet to find out what her elemental affinity was nor did she yet have the knowledge to modify jutsu, but being a medic nin was really the only thing she could imagine herself as.
And so, when a little bird had fallen out of its nest during one of Sasuke and Naruto's spar, Sakura had taken it under her care and nursed it back to health. However, one of its wing is broken, and that's the true test for Sakura today.
Today is the day that Sakura is going to try to mold her chakra into healing chakra to actually heal something. She had done it on herself numerous of times when she had gotten paper cuts from the books she borrowed, but never had she done it on a broken bone before.
Being nervous is an understatement, for Sakura does not want to risk hurting the bird anymore than it was already, but her determination forces her to try. And when the her chakra materializes out of her fingertips, out of her palms, she holds her breath. She has her chakra touching the bird's wing almost like a mist, and she holds it there for a long while until a full two minutes have passed. She doesn't realize she's still holding her breath until she finally lets it out when the bird flaps both of its wings and flies around her room.
"I never knew you knew medical jutsu."
If Sakura had been caught in a bad mood, she would have scolded her sensei for appearing out of nowhere but, since she was in the happiest of moods she could be in, she just ignored Kakashi's sudden appearance.
"Is there something you needed me for?" she asks him, the bird coming to rest on her shoulder.
"Well, let me just say congradulations," her sensei tells her, applauding her triumph. "You have successfully taught yourself the basics of medical jutsu. Not just anyone could do that. It will come in handy with what's coming."
Sakura almost turns as pink as her hair. "What do you mean by that? What's coming?"
Kakashi only smiles underneath his mask. "Sakura, I have nominated you, Sasuke, and Naruto all to take the chunin exams this year."
"Remember, just one more time
How we were born crying into this world
Your dreams and hopes for tomorrow
Are all in this world"